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Two candidates with very different backgrounds are running for the Jamestown district spot on the Williamsburg-James City County School Board.
Jim Kelly, who has been on the board since 2010, is running for re-election. He manages the industrial cranes...

West Point Public Schools officials hope recent environmental efforts will earn the division a green certification through a Virginia School Board Association program.
The Green Public Schools Challenge encourages school divisions to adopt...

The $13.2 million Hamilton-Holmes Middle School construction project remains on track to be completed in March 2019.
“We’re very much on schedule,” said Teran Mitchell of Ballou Justice Upton, who updated supervisors on the project Monday.
Ballou...

Staff in the Tidewater school division welcomed students with open arms as a new academic year began Tuesday.
Throughout Tidewater, administrators did not report any serious issues with buildings or getting students to school.
By about 7:30 a.m.,...

Redistricting and the naming of the fourth middle school are both on the agenda for Williamsburg-James City County School Board’s Tuesday meeting.
District staff expects to open the middle school prior to the start of the 2018-19 school year. Staff...

Two principals are the latest new faces to join superintendent Olwen Herron’s administrative team.
On Tuesday, the Williamsburg-James City County School Board approved hiring Phoebus High School principal Mark Hudson to replace Jeffery Carroll at...

Walls are up, cement floors have hardened and James Blair Middle School is taking shape at Ironbound and Longhill roads.
It's a place Ty Harris has only been once, but around which he will plan most of his days starting July 1.
More than a year before...

Donnell Brown, Jamestown High School head football coach and special education teacher, wanted to host an event to celebrate students with disabilities.
From Brown’s and his colleagues’ idea came the 1st Annual Exceptional Games, which took place on...

Ask any parent what it's like forcing a child to change schools, and their answer is likely synonymous with "awful."
This is what a number of Williamsburg-James City County families face as the division prepares to open the new James Blair Middle...

Williamsburg-James City County Schools are in a budgetary bind, with just 10 days to close a $754,000 spending gap.
That rift was created when the school board signed off on its fiscal year 2018 budget in late March, knowing it was well above what its...

Last spring, as 273 of their classmates prepared for freshmen year at Warhill, 12 Toano Middle School eighth graders were on a different path.
Their attendance zone directed them to Lafayette High School instead.
This split has occurred for years....

Too many students and not enough space.
That's why James Blair Middle School will open next fall, and why redistricting talks started earlier this month.
That's why the hallways in Berkeley Middle School feel so crowded — because they are.
"You don't...

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this snapshot misstated the capacity of all elementary schools together, it has been updated below.
Opinions abound and emotions run hot when school redistricting comes up in conversation.
With James Blair Middle...

With redistricting talks off the agenda, Williamsburg-James City County School Board’s Tuesday night meeting came in under an hour and a half.
Following a lengthy discussion at last week’s meeting, chairwoman Kyra Cook (Williamsburg) said the one-week...

Following a lengthy discussion Tuesday night, the Williamsburg-James City County School Board won't pick up redistricting talks again until May.
The board set a February 2018 goal to redraw attendance zones ahead of James Blair Middle School's...

Superintendent Olwen Herron named 17 instructors as 2017 teachers of the year for Williamsburg-James City County Schools — one for each school plus the preschool program Bright Beginnings.
Herron and the School Board recognized the teachers with a...

Williamsburg-James City County Schools two biggest projects are on time, according to the firms in charge of construction.
Both the fourth middle school underway at the James Blair site and Lafayette High School's auxiliary gym are set to be ready for...

Two Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control programs teaching students about drug and alcohol safety are back in schools this month.The fourth annual Being Outstanding Leaders Together Against Drugs and Alcohol program will be March 25 at...

When Berkeley Middle School principal Amour Mickel saw the results of her school's climate survey, she wasn't surprised.
Of the four categories — feedback and coaching, school climate, resources and school leadership — Berkeley teachers and staff...